🎲🧙 Dungeons & Dragons Quest
Gather your party! Embark on a D&D-inspired retrospective to conquer epic challenges, celebrate critical successes, and strategize for a legendary adventure ahead. Roll for insights and level up our team’s campaign!
Template Columns
🏆 Critical Successes
Share the moments where our party rolled natural 20s and achieved great feats together.
Base column: What Went Well🐉 Traps & Challenges
Identify the dragons, traps, and failed rolls that blocked our path this sprint.
Base column: What Went Wrong✨ Level Up Opportunities
Suggest magic items, skills, or strategies to strengthen our party for the next quest.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The Dungeons & Dragons Quest retrospective offers a fun, thematic way to reflect on team wins, challenges, and improvements, encouraging storytelling and creative problem-solving.
When to use this template
This retrospective is ideal when your team needs a fresh, engaging approach to boost morale, celebrate major accomplishments, and tackle ongoing challenges.
How to facilitate
Start by setting the scene: invite everyone to imagine the last sprint as an epic campaign and encourage playful D&D-style engagement.
Give each team member time to add notes in the Critical Successes column, focusing on where the team excelled or 'rolled a natural 20'.
Move to Traps & Challenges, prompting everyone to discuss blockers or setbacks faced together (or individually, as 'traps' or 'dragons').
Next, invite suggestions for Level Up Opportunities, encouraging ideas for new practices, tools, or habits to strengthen the team's performance going forward.
Once all notes are shared, review each column as a group—let participants elaborate, discuss, and connect points, using storytelling to add fun and detail.
Prioritize the most impactful Level Up Opportunities together and assign clear action owners so improvements are implemented in the next sprint.
Conclude with a quick round where each person shares a 'hero moment' or a fun takeaway, reinforcing the adventure theme.
Pro Tips
Lean into the D&D theme to make the retrospective more memorable—use playful language and encourage creative analogies.
Encourage quieter voices by inviting everyone to describe their contributions as a member of the party (e.g., 'the healer', 'the scout').
Keep the pace lively by using timers for each section—this helps maintain focus and keeps energy high.
Create a shared playlist or background image to build the adventuring atmosphere if your team enjoys the extra immersion.
FAQ
Do I need to know Dungeons & Dragons to participate?
Not at all! The theme is just for fun. The facilitator can briefly explain each column using everyday language.
How can I keep the theme from becoming a distraction?
Keep it light and adaptive; frame the discussion using the D&D language, but focus on relevant team insights and actions.
What if the team prefers a more serious approach?
Gauge your team’s mood—if preferred, minimize thematic elements and prioritize clear, honest discussion while keeping the structure.
How can we ensure actionable outcomes?
Encourage the team to assign owners and next steps for each improvement idea, and revisit these in future retrospectives.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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